11236. Aetna Banking and Trust company (Butte, MT)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
August 23, 1911
Location
Butte, Montana (46.004, -112.535)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
bfef012f

Response Measures

None

Description

Articles (Aug 23–25, 1911) report that Robert Lyons is acting as receiver of the Aetna Banking and Trust Company and has filed suit to recover funds from F. Augustus Heinze. No mention of a run or temporary suspension in these excerpts; the appointment of a receiver implies the bank was closed/failed and in receivership (permanent closure). Date chosen from earliest article mention (1911-08-23).

Events (1)
1. August 23, 1911 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Papers were filed in the district court at Butte in a sensational suit against F. Augustus Heinze, in which Robert Lyons, as receiver of the Aetna Banking and Trust company seeks to recover $250,000 alleged to have been obtained illegally by Heinze.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (5)
1. August 23, 1911 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
Article from Grant County Herald, August 23, 1911

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New York state and the middle west have a bumper apple crop this year for export shipments, according to the bulletin of the Boston chamber 01 commerce. The far west, Virginia and New England have fallen off some what, but New York and the middle west bring this year's average up to half as large again as last year. * * * Seven thousand people, represent ing 44 states, have registered for free homesteads in the Berthold Indiar reservation in North Dakota. Of this number 4,412 registered at Minot, the government headquarters. * * * Papers were filed in the district court at Butte in a sensational suit against F. Augustus Heinze, in which Robert Lyons, as receiver of the Aetna Banking and Trust company seeks to recover $250,000 alleged tc have been obtained illegally by Heinze. *** Andrew O'Hearn and Frank Ellis of Chicago, employed at the Rochelle tanning factory, went to sleep on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad tracks at Rochelle, Ill., and were killed by a fast train. *** From behind the bars in Sing Sing Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., army offi cer and inventor, has begun his battle for freedom against his wife, for love of whom he shot and killed his former friend, William E. Annis, at the Bay side Yacht club three years ago. The victim of the tragedy is named in the action started at Brooklyn. * Newman Erb and Edwin Hawley have planned to extend the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad to the Ca. nadian border, so as to connect with the Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific. Plans are also under way to extend the Iowa Central direct from Centerville to St. Louis. ... Mrs. Amanda Irwin, a widow, was admitted to Bellevue hospital, New York, suffering, the physicians said from hydrophobia, the symptoms of which have been unnoticed for five years. @ At a banquet given by Col. Robert M. Thompson to Admiral Togo at New York S. Takaki, secretary to the admiral, suddenly rose from his chair with an expression of pain. In trying to leave the table he fell, striking his head. and was picked up unconscious by aids to Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A.

2. August 24, 1911 Turner County Herald Hurley, SD
Article from Turner County Herald, August 24, 1911

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New York state and the middle west have a bumper apple crop this year for export shipments, according to the bulletin of the Boston chamber of commerce. The far west, Virginia and New England have fallen off somewhat, but New York and the middle west bring this year's average up to half as large again as last year. Seven thousand people, representing 44 states, have registered for free homesteads in the Berthold Indian reservation in North Dakota. Of this number 4,412 registered at Minot, the government headquarters. Papers were filed in the district court at Butte in a sensational suit against F. Augustus Heinze, in which Robert Lyons, as receiver of the Aetna Banking and Trust company, seeks to recover $250,000 alleged to have been obtained illegally by Heinze. Andrew O'Hearn and Frank Ellis of Chicago, employed at the Rochelle tanning factory, went to sleep on the tracks at Rochelle, III, and were killed by a fast train. From behind the bars in Sing Sing Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., army offi cer and inventor, has begun his battle for freedom against his wife, for love of whom he shot and killed his former friend, William E. Annis, at the Bay side Yacht club three years ago. The victim of the tragedy is named in the action started at Brooklyn. Newman Erb and Edwin Hawley have planned to extend the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad to the Canadian border, so as to connect with the Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific. Plans are also under way to extend the Iowa Central direct from Centerville to St. Louis. Mrs. Amanda Irwin, a widow, was admitted to Bellevue hospital, New York, suffering, the physicians said, from hydrophobia, the symptoms of which have been unnoticed for five years. At a banquet given by Col. Robert M. Thompson to Admiral Togo at New York S. Takaki, secretary to the admiral, suddenly rose from his chair with an expression of pain. In trying to leave the table he fell, striking his head. and was picked up unconscious by aids to Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A.

3. August 24, 1911 Audubon Republican Audubon, IA
Article from Audubon Republican, August 24, 1911

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New York state and the middle west have a bumper apple crop this year for export shipments, according to the bulletin of the Boston chamber of commerce. The far west, Virginia and New England have fallen off somewhat, but New York and the middle west bring this year's average up to half as large again as last year. ... Seven thousand people, representing 44 states, have registered for free homesteads in the Berthold Indian reservation in North Dakota. Of this number 4,412 registered at Minot, the government headquarters. ... Papers were filed in the district court at Butte in a sensational suit against F. Augustus Heinze, in which Robert Lyons, as receiver of the Aetna Banking and Trust company, seeks to recover $250,000 alleged to have been obtained illegally by Heinze. ... Andrew O'Hearn and Frank Ellis of Chicago, employed at the Rochelle tanning factory, went to sleep on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad tracks at Rochelle, III., and were killed by a fast train. ... From behind the bars in Sing Sing Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., army officer and inventor, has begun his battle for freedom against his wife, for love of whom he shot and killed his former friend, William E. Annis, at the Bayside Yacht club three years ago. The victim of the tragedy is named in the action started at Brooklyn. ... Newman Erb and Edwin Hawley have planned to extend the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad to the Canadian border, so as to connect with the Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific. Plans are also under way to extend the Iowa Central direct from Centerville to St. Louis. ... Mrs. Amanda Irwin, a widow, was admitted to Bellevue hospital, New York, suffering, the physicians said, from hydrophobia, the symptoms of which have been unnoticed for five years. ... At a banquet given by Col. Robert M. Thompson to Admiral Togo at New York S. Takaki, secretary to the admiral, suddenly rose from his chair with an expression of pain. In trying to leave the table he fell, striking his head. and was picked up unconscious by aids to Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A.

4. August 25, 1911 The Ely Miner Ely, MN
Article from The Ely Miner, August 25, 1911

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A pistol fight to the death occurred near Goat Rock, Ga. The combatants were Sam Gordon, a white man, and George Caldwell, a negro. The two bodies were found near each other about dusk. * Edward Cannessa, a well-to-do Italian, is dead at his Brooklyn home as a result of his efforts to act as peacemaker between two of his friends who fired revolvers on each other in a quarrel over the hand of his daughter. Lewis W. Hoyell, manager of the Toledo Metal Wheel company of Toledo, O., arrived in New York to attend a convention. He had scarcely set foot on the soil of the metropolis when he was robbed of his pocketbok. A solitaire diamond ring, valued at $300 was taken from him a few minutes later. Daughters of the American Revolution gave a reception and dinner on the steamship George Washington in New York in honor of Congressman Richard Bartholdt of Missouri, who sailed in charge of a statue of Baron Von Steuben, which congress will present to the German government. After three years' exile among strangers in Caracas, Venezuela, two Syrian children, Susan and Lucien Lulu, are detained at Ellis Island, New York, prevented by the immigration officials from carrying out their plan to join their parents at Smithton, Pa. Their eyes show symptoms of trachoma. New York state and the middle west have a bumper apple crop this year for export shipments, according to the bulletin of the Boston chamber of commerce. The far west, Virginia and New England have fallen off somewhat, but New York and the middle west bring this year's average up to half as large again as last year. Seven thousand people, representing 44 states, have registered for free homesteads in the Berthold Indian reservation in North Dakota. Of this number 4,412 registered at Minot, the government headquarters. * * Papers were filed in the district court at Butte in a sensational suit against F. Augustus Heinze, in which Robert Lyons, as receiver of the Aetna Banking and Trust company, seeks to recover $250,000 alleged to have been obtained illegally by Heinze. Andrew O'Hearn and Frank Ellis of Chicago, employed at the Rochelle tanning factory, went to sleep on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad tracks at Rochelle, III., and were killed by a fast train.

5. August 25, 1911 The Jasper Weekly Courier Jasper, IN
Article from The Jasper Weekly Courier, August 25, 1911

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# SPARKS FROM LIVE WIRES Mrs. Amanda Irwin, a widow, was admitted to Bellevue hospital, New York, suffering, the physicians said, from hydrophobia, the symptoms of which have been unnoticed for five years. It is reported at Teheran that Mohammed Ali Mirza, the former shah of Persia, who recently returned from exile in Russia and started an uprising to regain his throne, has been assassinated. Andrew O'Hearn and Frank Ellis of Chicago, employed at the Rochelle tanning factory, went to sleep on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad tracks at Rochelle, Ill., and were killed by a fast train. Seven thousand people, representing 44 states, have registered for free homesteads in the Berthold Indian reservation in North Dakota. Of this number 4,412 registered at Minot, the government headquarters. The engagement of Lieut. Frank P. Lahm of the Seventh United States cavalry, widely known army aeronautic expert, and Miss Gertrude Jenner, of one of the oldest families in Mansfield, O., has just been announced. Mrs. Thomas Pettigrew of Lion's Head, Ontario, strangled her son and daughter, aged twelve and ten years, and then hanged herself in the kitchen. She had been in poor health and is believed to have lost her mind. Robert Service, the author, who has arrived at Dawson, Y. T., from Fort MacPherson, reports that Hubert Darrell, an arctic explorer, has been missing from Baillee island, east of the mouth of the Mackenzie river, since October. Announcement is made of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Columbus Wilson. Mr. Wilson is the convicted head of the United Wireless Telegraph company and is fighting to escape a three-year sentence to the Atlanta penitentiary. Members of the American Humorists' association, in Boston for their annual convention, continued their sightseeing and made a trip to historic Plymouth. Then they witnessed the maneuvering of United States warships in Provincetown harbor. Joseph Ribis is under arrest in Brooklyn charged with a double murder committed in a dispute over the possession of a two-year-old baby. He has shot and killed the child's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rosco Debasco, and wounded their nineteen-year-old son. Papers were filed in the district court at Butte in a sensational suit against F. Augustus Heinze, in which Robert Lyons, as receiver of the Aetna Banking and Trust company, seeks to recover $250,000 alleged to have been obtained illegally by Heinze. Mrs. Marjorie Burnes Love is a "four flusher" and she deserted her husband because he had lost his money when his brokerage concern went to the wall, according to Sidney C. Love's attorney, who argued at Baker, Ore., against the granting of a divorce to her. That a movement among Chinese students in the United States, started by the Chinese of the University of Chicago last Easter vacation, has resulted in the formation of a self-defense league to which practically every Chinese collegian in America belongs, has been made public.